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← back to feed·LOGIC2021-08-19 · 4y ago
Incident · SLOWMIST

Pinecone Finance

Compatibility Issue
Estimated loss
VERDICT —UNRATED
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▰ METHOD
LOGIC
LOGICBYTECODE CATCHABLEAI SCANNABLE
Root cause

Root-cause analysis not yet published. The incident description below contains all currently available signal — review the attack transaction directly for definitive forensics.

Forensic narrative

Pinecone launched the pledge pool of protocol token PCT at 09:00 UTC on August 18, 2021, and was attacked at 11:41:19 AM UTC. When the Pinecone PCT pledge pool went online, the front-end was processed to limit illegal operations, but the hacker bypassed the front-end page during the attack and directly called the smart contract through the ordinary account, depositing PCT tokens greater than the amount of the account balance, and the PCT pool was wrong. Records the number of user deposits. When withdrawing, you can extract more PCT tokens. After discovering that the currency price had plunged, the project party immediately terminated the call of the smart contract. The current loss of the number of PCTs: about 3.53 million. Attack method (per SlowMist): Compatibility Issue. Reported loss: 3,530,000 PCT.

Primary source
https://medium.com/@PineconeFinance/pinecone-pct%E8%B4%A8%E6%8A%BC%E6%B1%A0%E6%94%BB%E5%87%BB%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6-dfa2b03c8bfc
Sourced from
slowmist
Technical record
chain
protocol
Pinecone Finance
bug_class
logic
date_occurred
2021-08-19
loss_usd
source_id
sm:pinecone-finance::2021-08-19
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